NY Assistant District Attorney affirms refusal to unseal appellate briefs in Jeffrey Epstein SORA case

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK APPELLATE DIVISION: FIRST DEPARTMENT THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, AFFIRMATION IN RESPONSE Respondent, TO MOTION -against- JEFFREY E. EPSTEIN, N.Y. Co. Ind. No. 30129/10 Defendant-Appellant. Cal. Date: December 31, 2018 KAREN FRIEDMAN AGNIFILO, an attomey duly adrnitted to practice before the courts of this State, affirms under penalty of perjury that: 1. I am an Assistant District Attorney, of counsel to CYRUS R. VANCE, JR, District Attomey of New York County, and I submit this affirmation on behalf of the People in response to a motion filed by non-party movant NYP Holdings, Inc. (the “Post”) to “unseal” the appellate briefs from 2011, pertaining to the adjudication of defendant Jeffrey E. Epstein as a Level III sex offender under the Sex Offender Registration Act (“SORA”). Civil Rights Law § 50-b pécviles that the identities of the victims of sex offenses must remain confidential and that documents bearing identifying information should not be wale available for public inspection. Despite those protections, the Post seeks copies of the -appellate briefs, with the names or initials of Epstein’s sex crimes victims redacted, for use in reporting about the procedural history underlying defendant’s SORA adjudication. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016474